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Qiuhua Liang is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Their research work spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a primary focus on hydrology and related disciplines.

The main fields of study covered by Qiuhua Liang include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the scientist's research extends into several subfields, such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Qiuhua Liang's body of work also concentrates on specific research topics, notably:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions

The following recent publications illustrate the focus and scope of their research contributions:

  • A deep convolutional neural network model for rapid prediction of fluvial flood inundation, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Real-Time Flood Forecasting Based on a High-Performance 2-D Hydrodynamic Model and Numerical Weather Predictions, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Comprehensive evaluation of hydrological drought and its relationships with meteorological drought in the Yellow River basin, China, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Utilizing GRACE-based groundwater drought index for drought characterization and teleconnection factors analysis in the North China Plain, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Neurocomputing in surface water hydrology and hydraulics: A review of two decades retrospective, current status and future prospects, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

Qiuhua Liang collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Xilin Xia
  • Huili Chen
  • Gang Wang
  • Haibo Yang
  • Lee Bosher

Their research outputs are primarily published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Computers and Geotechnics

Best Publications

  • Numerical resolution of well-balanced shallow water equations with complex source terms

    Qiuhua Liang;Fabien Marche

  • Adaptive quadtree simulation of shallow flows with wet-dry fronts over complex topography

    Qiuhua Liang;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • A deep convolutional neural network model for rapid prediction of fluvial flood inundation

    Syed Kabir;Syed Kabir;Sandhya Patidar;Xilin Xia;Qiuhua Liang

  • Assessing the utility of social media as a data source for flood risk management using a real-time modelling framework

    Luke Smith;Qiuhua Liang;Philip James;Wen Lin

  • Real-Time Flood Forecasting Based on a High-Performance 2-D Hydrodynamic Model and Numerical Weather Predictions

    Xiaodong Ming;Xiaodong Ming;Qiuhua Liang;Xilin Xia;Dingmin Li

  • Flood Simulation Using a Well-Balanced Shallow Flow Model

    Qiuhua Liang

  • An efficient and stable hydrodynamic model with novel source term discretization schemes for overland flow and flood simulations

    Xilin Xia;Qiuhua Liang;Xiaodong Ming;Jingming Hou

  • A full-scale fluvial flood modelling framework based on a high-performance integrated hydrodynamic modelling system (HiPIMS)

    Xilin Xia;Qiuhua Liang;Xiaodong Ming

  • A 2D well-balanced shallow flow model for unstructured grids with novel slope source term treatment

    Jingming Hou;Qiuhua Liang;Franz Simons;Reinhard Hinkelmann

  • Simulation of dam- and dyke-break hydrodynamics on dynamically adaptive quadtree grids

    Q. Liang;A. G. L. Borthwick;G. Stelling

  • Towards a generalised GPU/CPU shallow-flow modelling tool

    Luke S. Smith;Qiuhua Liang

  • An efficient unstructured MUSCL scheme for solving the 2D shallow water equations

    Jingming Hou;Qiuhua Liang;Hongbin Zhang;Reinhard Hinkelmann

  • Utilizing GRACE-based groundwater drought index for drought characterization and teleconnection factors analysis in the North China Plain

    Fei Wang;Zongmin Wang;Haibo Yang;Danyang Di

  • Comprehensive evaluation of hydrological drought and its relationships with meteorological drought in the Yellow River basin, China

    Fei Wang;Zongmin Wang;Haibo Yang;Danyang Di

  • Large-scale hydrodynamic modeling of the middle Yangtze River Basin with complex river–lake interactions

    Xijun Lai;Jiahu Jiang;Qiuhua Liang;Qun Huang

  • Neurocomputing in surface water hydrology and hydraulics: A review of two decades retrospective, current status and future prospects

    Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani;Elena Matta;Andrea Cominola;Xilin Xia

  • Impoundment Effects of the Three-Gorges-Dam on Flow Regimes in Two China’s Largest Freshwater Lakes

    Xijun Lai;Qiuhua Liang;Jiahu Jiang;Qun Huang

  • A 2D shallow flow model for practical dam-break simulations

    Yueling Wang;Qiuhua Liang;Georges Kesserwani;Jim W. Hall

  • Flood Inundation Modeling with an Adaptive Quadtree Grid Shallow Water Equation Solver

    Qiuhua Liang;Guozhi Du;Jim W. Hall;Alistair G. L. Borthwick

  • Urban flood susceptibility analysis using a GIS-based multi-criteria analysis framework

    Lin Lin;Zening Wu;Qiuhua Liang

  • A stable 2D unstructured shallow flow model for simulations of wetting and drying over rough terrains

    Jingming Hou;Jingming Hou;Qiuhua Liang;Franz Simons;Reinhard Hinkelmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair G.L. Borthwick
Alistair G.L. Borthwick University of Edinburgh
Jim W. Hall
Jim W. Hall University of Oxford
Yong Liu
Yong Liu Peking University
R. Eatock Taylor
R. Eatock Taylor University of Oxford
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson Newcastle University
Shuguang Xie
Shuguang Xie Peking University
Hayley J. Fowler
Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University
Daniel T. Cox
Daniel T. Cox Oregon State University
Gareth Pender
Gareth Pender Heriot-Watt University
Jeffrey C. Neal
Jeffrey C. Neal University of Bristol

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